CliffsNotes SAT Cram Plan - Softcover

Burstein, Jane R.; Ma, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470470585 ISBN 13: 9780470470589

Verlag: Cliffs Notes, 2009

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It's SAT Crunch Time!

Get a plan to ace the exam—and make the most of the time you have left.

Whether you have two months, one month, or even just a week left before the exam, you can turn to the experts at CliffsNotes for a trusted and achievable cram plan to ace the SAT—without ever breaking a sweat!

First, you'll determine exactly how much time you have left to prepare for the exam. Then, you'll turn to the two-month, one-month, or one-week cram plan for week-by-week and day-by-day schedules of the best way to focus your study according to your unique timeline.

Each stand-alone plan includes:

Diagnostic test– helps you pinpoint your strengths and weaknesses soyou can focus your review on the topics in which you need the most help

Subject reviews– cover everything you can expect on the actual exam:sentence completions; critical reading passages; vocabulary; essays;grammar and usage; working with numbers; algebra and functions;solving geometry problems; probability, statistics, and data analysis;and applying logic and problem solving

Full-length practice test with answers and detailed explanations–a simulated SAT exam with scoring guide gives you an authentictest-taking experience

Visit the SAT Cram Plan Center for online access to additional practice problems, activities, and more.

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William Ma is Chair of the math department at Herricks High School in New Hyde Park,New York.

Jane R. Burstein is a private SAT tutor and a Reader for the Advanced Placement English Language exam.

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CliffsNotes SAT Cram Plan

By William Ma Jane R. Burstein

John Wiley & Sons

Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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ISBN: 978-0-470-47058-9

Chapter One

Diagnostic Test

This Diagnostic Test, excluding the essay, is half the length of a full-length SAT Test. The Diagnostic Test has four sections: The Essay, Critical Reading, Mathematics, and Writing. The tests are designed to measure your ability in these four areas and to predict your success in college. Each question on the test is numbered. Choose the best answer for each question and fill in the corresponding circle on the answer sheet provided.

When you take this exam, try to simulate the test conditions by following the time allotments carefully. On the actual SAT, if you finish a section before the allotted time runs out, you may not work on any other section. You may not go back to a previous section or move ahead to work on the next section.

You will need 1 hour and 53 minutes to complete the Diagnostic Test:

Essay: 25 minutes

Critical Reading: 35 minutes

Mathematics: 35 minutes

Writing: 18 minutes

Answer Sheet

Section 1

Section 1: Writing-Essay

Time: 25 minutes

Directions: This essay gives you a chance to develop your own ideas and express them in essay form. Read the question carefully, think about your point of view, present your ideas clearly in logical fashion, and be sure to use standard written English.

You must write your essay in the space provided; you must use only the lines within the margin. You should write on every line (do not skip lines), avoid wide margins, and keep your handwriting to a reasonable size. You may write or print, but try to write as legibly as you can.

You will have 25 minutes for this section. Be sure to write on the topic. An off-topic essay, no matter how well written, will receive a score of zero.

Think about the issue presented below:

Some students of human nature say people are driven by selfish desires. They say every action is motivated by a self-serving impulse. Others disagree and point to all the selfless and humanitarian deeds done by people throughout the ages. Human actions, they say, are primarily motivated by the desire to help others.

Assignment: Are human beings by nature primarily selfish or unselfish? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this question. Be sure to support your position with reasons and examples taken from personal experience, observation, reading, or studies.

Be sure to write only in the space provided on your answer sheet.

Section 2: Critical Reading

Time: 25 minutes

Directions: Each sentence below has either one or two blanks. Each blank indicates that a word has been left out. Beneath the sentence are five words or sets of words labeled A through E. Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

EXAMPLE:

The regeneration of the Pine Barrens after the devastating wildfire did not take place overnight; on the contrary, the regrowth was __________. A. expected B. encouraged C. gradual D. infinite E. rapid

The correct answer is C.

1. Charlie preferred to remain unnoticed in the crowd, for his natural __________ led him to shun attention.

A. dogmatism B. affability C. jocularity D. slyness E. diffidence

2. Rather than __________ the signs warning picnickers to remain on the paths, Ella and Alex decided to spread their blanket on the rocky cliff. A. disregard B. apply C. appease D. heed E. evade

3. Although they are twins, Jessica and Jonathan are nothing alike; Jessica is reserved and __________ while her brother is __________ and extroverted.

A. distant ... guileful B. insightful ... unskillful C. introspective ... ebullient D. congenial ... reticent E. jolly ... amiable

4. Not an __________ by nature, Sophie declined to __________ her ideals for a quicker, more expedient solution to the problems plaguing her community. A. organizer ... denounce B. enabler ... supplant C. opportunist ... compromise D. authoritarian ... discern E. instigator ... incite

5. In his most recent book, A Concise Pocket Guide to Birds, Dr. Gonzalez includes all the species of North America; hence, while his work is __________, it lacks __________. A. compendious ... independence B. unique ... energy C. comprehensive ... depth D. serious ... frivolity E. useful ... pragmatism

6. Edgar Allan Poe's much-vaunted detective C. Auguste Dupin often astonishes his cohort with his acumen: this __________ sleuth often reveals the solution with an uncanny display of __________.

A. acclaimed ... perspicacity B. gullible ... equanimity C. notorious ... mettle D. nondescript ... ostentation E. officious ... astuteness

7. In his later, more secular verse, the Cavalier poet leavens the __________ piety of his youthful religious sonnets with irreverent and suggestive __________.

A. sober ... wit B. devout ... indictment C. flippant ... accuracy D. urbane ... provincialism E. callow ... cacophony

8. The sophists, Greek philosophers who used the art of rhetoric to deceive, were often accused of __________ reasoning.

A. munificent B. propitiatory C. hapless D. specious E. salutary

9. Because computer-generated digital painting is still neither totally accepted nor completely rejected as an art form by curators, its placement in museums remains __________.

A. aggrandized

B. arbitrary

C. ubiquitous

D. evanescent

E. perfidious

Directions: Carefully read the following passages and answer the questions that follow each passage. The questions after the pair of related passages may ask you about the relationship between the passages. Answer the questions based on the content of the passages: both what is stated and what is implied in the passages as well as any introductory material before each passage.

Questions 10-11 are based on the following passage.

This passage is taken from the introduction to a British novel published in 1766.

There are an hundred faults in this thing and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. The hero (5) of this piece unites in himself the three greatest characters upon earth: he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey; as simple in affluence, and majestic in adversity. (10) In this age of opulence and refinement whom can such a character please? Such as are fond of high life will turn from the simplicity of his country friends. Such as mistake ribaldry for humour will find no wit in his harmless conversation; (15) and such as have been taught to...

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• Verlag: Cliffs Notes
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0470470585
• ISBN 13: 9780470470589
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
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